Students in public secondary schools received a grade of C or above in slightly more than half of the Cambridge IGCSE exams they took this year, Government revealed yesterday.
This is the first year a substantial number of public school students hav...
DATE: Oct 04, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
September 29, 2011
Dear Sir,
We should welcome Premier Cox’s initiatives to introduce ten-year work permits and a new category of long term residency for job creators as moves in the right direction but realise more needs to be done to reverse the d...
DATE: Oct 04, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Acting Health Minister Michael Weeks yesterday encouraged women to take steps to protect themselves against breast cancer.
His comments were made at the launch of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, at City Hall.
Mr Weeks said breast cancer was the most c...
The Bermuda Cancer & Health Centre is feeling especially pleased with the success of its SunSmart Programme.
The skin cancer educational programme began accrediting summer day camps three years ago and now boasts that its message has been imparted to...
Lolita Warner has achieved one of those rare milestones 20 years at the same company.
Ms Warner joined Pembroke Tile and Stone in 1991 and has been an integral part of the company’s growth from starting life as a shop to the small business empire it ...
*Two years ago I started researching a book about the British Censorship Department based in Bermuda during the Second World War. I have spent many hours tracking down the families of censors, as many of the censors themselves are now deceased. I met...
A film about an 84-year-old Kenyan man who attends school for the first time is to screen again this week.
Three previous screenings of ‘The First Grader’ have sold out.
This fourth screening will take place tomorrow at the Bermuda Underwater Explor...
DATE: Oct 03, 2011 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
George Lynch had to be persuaded to move to Bermuda but once he arrived he found his “inner Johnny Barnes” and talked to everyone he met.
Those who attended a memorial service for the 40-year-old murder victim on May 13, 2010, heard touching tributes...
School children on the Island could soon benefit from the launch of six environmental documentary DVDs filmed in Bermuda.
The documentaries, four of which have previously featured in an abridged mini-series on Discovery Channel Canada, were created b...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011 | CATEGORY: Environment | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The United Nations launched an international design competition Friday for a permanent memorial to victims of slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The memorial will be constructed at UN headquarters in New York and the comp...
